Biology Reference
In-Depth Information
Director General of
Health Services
(National Level)
Chief Epidemiologist
Epidemiological Unit
(National Level)
Provincial Director of
Health Services (9)
(Provincial Level)
Regional Director of
Health Services (26)
(Regional Level)
Regional
Epidemiologist
(Regional Level)
Medical Ocer of Health (290)
(Divisional Level)
Public Health Inspector
(Area Level)
Suwadana Center
Volunteers
(Area Level)
Figure 13.1
Organizational structure of the Sri Lanka Government Healthcare Officials (integer in paren-
thesis is the number of each entity in the country).
diseases and attending to patients (in government and private medical
institutions, the intern house officers, grade medical officers, other medi-
cal officers and consultants, general practitioners, and family physicians)
suspecting any “notifiable” disease type marked as Group A, Group B,
and SARS, should report the case to the relevant public health authorities
(Epidemiology Unit of Sri Lanka 2005).
Group A
diseases (cholera, plague, or
yellow fever) should be reported to the Director General of Health Services,
Deputy Director General of Public Health Services, Epidemiologist, Regional
Epidemiologist, and Divisional Director of Health Services/Medical Officer
of Health, using form I (H-544) communicated via telephone, fax, or tele-
gram.
Group B
diseases (acute flaccid paralysis [or poliomyelitis], enteric
fever, tetanus, chicken pox, food poisoning, typhus fever, dengue fever [or
dengue hemorrhagic fever], human rabies, whooping cough, diphtheria,
leptospirosis, tuberculosis, dysentery, malaria, viral hepatitis, encephalitis,
measles, mumps, rubella (or congenial rubella syndrome), meningitis, sim-
ple fever continued over 7 days, or any other disease occurring in epidemic
proportion) should be reported to either the divisional Director of Health
Services or medical officer of health or both using form I (H-544) via the
postal service.
